Alan Neider received an AA from El Camino Jr. College, a meaningful and pivotal educational experience; a BA in Ceramics from California State Un. at Long Beach; an MFA in Sculpture from Washington Un. in St. Louis, MO. While in graduate school he received a Robert Rauschenberg Change Inc. Work Grant and was accepted into the MacDowell Artist Colony. Moving to Chicago he continued to paint, he was represented by the Jan Cicero gallery and later the Nancy Lurie Gallery where he had several solo exhibitions. In Chicago he was commissioned to create a free-standing painting on top of Navy Pier. He was selected to The CETA artists in residence program in Chicago. He was, also, represented by the Henri Gallery in Washington, DC having three solo exhibitions there. He moved to the east coast in 1980 where he has continued his painting practice. Neider has had two solo exhibitions in CT., a solo show in Bushwick, NY and a solo show in Montclair, NJ. He has been in numerous group exhibitions including Galerie Kremers in Berlin, the 490 Atlanic Gallery, the Overlook Gallery in Chicago, IL., the Carter-Burden Gallery in Chelsea, NY, Equity Gallery, NY, Un. of WI, Lowe Museum, FL.